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I was looking at the ESPN, and ended up reading a little write up about the top rated recruit in the country - Myron Rolle - picking Floridia State.

Humourosly, he said that academics played a big roll in his picking FSU. Oh, I'm sure football had nothing to do with it... but I laughed out loud when I read the second to last line of the article...

Rolle has two goals after college -- to make it to the NFL and to be a neurosurgeon.

WHAT?!? On the other hand, if he does it, I'd love to see it... but what a combo!

Rolle is not only a great athlete, but is very intelligent and also an incredibly polite and humble person. His comments in no way were made in jest. He carries a 4.0 GPA at the Hun School in Princeton, NJ. Your observations are way off the mark with this kid.

HFvictory wrote:Rolle is not only a great athlete, but is very intelligent and also an incredibly polite and humble person. His comments in no way were made in jest. He carries a 4.0 GPA at the Hun School in Princeton, NJ. Your observations are way off the mark with this kid and incredibly stupid.

You misunderstood... I laughed because I coulen't believe it.

Like I said... what a combo!

I just laughed at the blunt way ESPN article presented it... NFL and neurosurgeon.


Sorry, I find interesting turns of phrases, that make me laugh. I in no way intended my "Comic Gold" to imply that the kid wasn't serious. That was all set out in the ESPN article... I just think the writer should have used a better segue... like "In addition to his professional football aspirations, Rolle has a desire to be a neurourgeon, to this end he plans on graduating in three years and studying biology."


I just can't believe that the editors wouldn't have handled it better.



Sorry, HFVictory, and had typed a whol bunch more, and decided no one would care about all that other stuff... so I pointed out what made me laugh... not because I think the kid is foolish, but because I thought the writer was.

.... aslo, I'm guessing that I made the same mistake that the ESPN writer made - not giving enough information.


... in the same vein, I went to lunch with my father yesterday he said to me, "I'm worried about my weight... because our scale broke."

He said it not intended to be a joke... but, man, I had a good laugh, I knew his implication was not that he broke the scale... After I started laughing, he said, "I didn't break the scale." I knew that. It was funny (a) because it could be mis-understood that way and (b) why is that a valid reason to be worried about your weight?

Now, obviously, if you track your weight everyday, you kind of have this routine, "okay, I'm within this weight area... blah, blah, blah"... if the scales broken, of course then you would have added stress because you're not sure about what's happening with your foo intake, exercise, etc.



Hence the reason I laughed at the ESPN article, not that I was not smart enough to know what the writer's intent was, but that he would actually use that turn of phrase that could be open to misinterpretation. And plus, it's just a plain interesting combo... and when stated that bluntly, it made me laugh. Not because the kid isn't serious about it, but that they (ESPN) would have phrased it that way.